Chapter 494:

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Allison had no way of reading his thoughts, only feeling the pulse of tension as his fingers tightened around her wrist, turning his knuckles ghostly white.

“If you know that, Mr. Lloyd,” she said, meeting his intense gaze with all the steadiness she could muster, “then let go of me.”

But Kellan didn’t move.

Instead, he took his time, his tall figure looming over her as he leaned in. The alley felt too narrow, too tight, as if the air itself had thinned around them, trapping them both.

“After all, between you and me, it was always just…” The words she’d poised to speak vanished in her throat as he closed the final gap. And then, without warning, he crashed his lips onto hers, silencing everything—thought, breath, the entire world.

The tension crackled between them, reminiscent of those previous nights filled with confusion and desire. It was dangerous—beyond forbidden.

here, in this secluded alley, there was no guarantee that

her eyes, instinctively ready to strike him, but Kellan was quicker, thrusting his right leg between hers,

closeness was

that followed was intense, relentless—an all-consuming

the moment. Suddenly, Allison bit down hard on his lower lip, tasting the sharp tang of

the moment, she shoved Kellan away, slapping him hard across the

I’m not here for your

lip, but he simply wiped it away with his finger,

laugh, his eyes

real, you’d know I’m not just playing

his fingers with hers in a gesture that might have been tender but felt more like

“I swore I’d

calm—the calm that hints at the

in your veins to walk

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